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Therefore, the role of slash-and-burn is significant in the current Holocene extinction.

Slash-and-char is an alternative to slash-and-burn that has a lesser effect on the environment.

Slash-and-char offers considerable benefits to the environment when compared to slash-and-burn.

The Urapmin practice slash-and-burn agriculture, and raise small numbers of pigs.

For example, many farmers still clear land by the ancient method of slash-and-burn, in which forest is chopped, left to dry, and then burned.

He insists he won't meddle in the journalism or slash-and-burn the staff.

Slash-and-burn is typically a type of subsistence agriculture, and not focused by the need to sell crops in world markets.

Threats to the species have included habitat destruction caused by slash-and-burn (jhum) activity.

Slash-and-burn plays a part in it, and many a well-known career is shown either in part or not at all.

"The politics of smear and slash-and-burn must end."

Slash-and-burn is a method sometimes used by shifting cultivators to create short term yields from marginal soils.

The Lamet practice slash-and-burn agriculture, as well as hunting, gathering and fishing.

Slash-and-burn is an agricultural technique which involves cutting and burning of forests or woodlands to create fields.

Poorer farmers resort to destructive techniques, like slash-and-burn, that are particularly damaging to the savannah and prairie land.

The tone of some of this year's campaigns is not a noticeable improvement over the slash-and-burn of recent years.

The bird appears to be not uncommon in regenerating swidden ("slash-and-burn") plots.

Sometimes there are several cycles of slash-and-burn within a few years time span; for example in eastern Madagascar the following scenario occurs commonly.

The forested land area has declined significantly since the 1970s as a result of commercial logging and expanded swidden, or slash-and-burn, farming.

Pobol suggested that the culture experienced a transition from swidden ('slash-and-burn') to plough-type cultivation.

A typical farm is a half-acre in size, cleared by slash-and-burn, on which they grow cassava, sugarcane and rice.

Slash-and-burn could be distinctly defined as the large-scale deforestation of acres of forests for agricultural usage.

I suspect by the end of the Tories' reign of slash-and-burn, our welfare system will look like the one they have in the US.

Swidden cultivation is an extensive agriculture practice that is also known as Slash-and-Burn agriculture.

Slash-and-burn of forest for agricultural cultivation and illegal logging also has contributed to the degradation of some parts of the protected area.

Traditionally, most of the indigenous population practised jhum method (a type of slash-and-burn) of cultivation.